little? apt suggestion
Hi all
How about an apt-get command that retrieves a list of mirrors and pings them
all to get an idea of the speed and then adds a line to sources.list for
the quickest site. Maybe a nice curses ui to choose if you want security.debian,
latest gnome packages, netgod's x updates etc. as well.
I also find myself switching between different mirrors quite often, be it
server downtime, speed etc. What i usually do then is change the line in
/etc/apt/sources.list to point to the the new server and i also rename the
file in /var/state/apt/lists so that it corresponds to the new file that would
have been created for the new server so that is doesn't have to run the update
again. Maybe this could also be automated?
At the moment I'm still learning C and have worked a bit with ncurses in perl
(very much the same as C's ncurses) so I would be glad to help implement such
a feature but I'm not a maintainer yet and the mailings about how much time it
takes to process a new application are quite discouraging :(
Regards
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